Chains of dispossession and communities in struggle: the illegal opiate market in Guerrero (Mexico)

In this paper, it is explored the impact of militarized and punitive methods drug control on indigenous peasant communities engaged in cultivation poppies Guerrero (Mexico), within a context neoliberal agrarian counter-reform state repression, operating through multi-level range power brokers. Through lens ethnography mixed methodology, examined dynamics changing characteristics commodity chain heroin, from field production to consumption money laundering, analysed different logics dispossession involved, as well rationales normative discourses producing their survival strategies. The framework analysis behind drawn studies regarding anthropology state, «illicit», capitalism, critical development studies.